State v. Rash’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably State v. Bayless (1951), State v. Chambers (1984)
41 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Privitt v. Commonwealth · State v. Davis · State v. Daubert · State v. Manns · State v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Ordinarily self defense is in the nature of an affirmative defense, and a question for the jury. But whether the state’s evidence, which is neither disputed nor contradicted, established self defense so as to make a killing justifiable homicide instead of murder or manslaughter is a question of law for the court.” (Emphasis added) 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thornton
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.